A survey of the genetic resources of kava (Piper methysticum
Forst. f. and P. wichmannii C. DC.) was conducted throughout the Pacific. Leaf
tissues of more than 300 accessions, collected on 35 islands, were analyzed ...

Gracilaria mixta from South China is one of several terete species
of Gracllaria that requires critical microscopic examination for identification.
This new species demonstrates a mixture of spermatangial types that ...

Colonies of Pocillopora damicornis were placed in a sealed aquarium
in the dark. Water velocity was altered and measured in 10 different
experiments. During each experiment, seawater in the aquarium was supersaturated
with ...

Micrometeorological measurements were made in the lower alpine
zone of Mt. Haleakala on Maui, Hawaiian Islands, in March 1988 to characterize
ecologically significant climatological parameters. Daily courses of
photos ...

Effects on mortality and settlement of Pocillopora damicornis
planula larvae during recovery from low levels of Ni++ were investigated.
Results indicated that a nickel concentration of 9 ppm over 12 hr was sufficient
to ...

Thirty new records of fishes are reported from Johnston Atoll.
Three are Hawaiian endemics, six are widespread Indo-Pacific species that reach
Johnston but not Hawaii, and the remainder are widespread species that ...

Recent observations of terns, either the Old World Little Tern
(Sterna albifrons) or the New World Least Tern (Sterna antillarum), at Pearl and
Hermes Reef in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands have documented that one
of ...

Current anthropological theory and archaeological evidence have
led to a reappraisal of the hypothesized route of dispersal of the Polynesian rat,
Rattus exulans, through the Pacific and to New Zealand. This commensal ...

Osmotic relations of several strand species were investigated by
determining osmotic potentials and sodium contents of leaf samples collected
in the field, by measuring the electrical conductivity of groundwaters and
soil ...

A census of fruit bats (Pteropus mariannus ulthiensis) was conducted
on Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, in March 1986. We observed 715 bats
in 3.2 km2 of habitat on 14 of 43 islets, yielding a minimum average density ...

Planulae larvae of the reef coral Pocillopora damicornis were
exposed to three pesticides in concentrations ranging from 0.01 to 100 ppm.
Actively swimming planulae were held in test solutions for 96 hr, after which
viability ...

Phestilla sibogae, a nudibranch living on corals of the genus
Porites, is rarely found on the reef at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, although Porites
compressa is a dominant coral there. This is probably due to massive predation
on ...

Recent discovery of a population of plants referable to Stenogyne
kealia e, which was treated as a synonym of the widespread Kaua'i species, S.
purpur ea, has provided new information that shows that it is a distinct ...

Three species of Tabanidae, one Cydistomyia from the Solomon
Islands and two species of Tabanus from Fiji, are described. New distribution
records for two Cydistomyia, one Japenoides, and three Tabanus species are
presented ...

Twelve specimens of the Sulawesi black racer, Coluber (Ptyas)
dipsas, have been reported in the literature; none of these is from American
collections. Morphology and relationships of the snake, based on a fresh
specimen, ...

Albert H. and Dora M. Banner produced a total of 43 documents
(a thesis, a report, and 41 publications) on alpheid shrimp over a period of 47
yr. They studied the Indo-Pacific Faunal Region and focused on the systematics
and ...